Part of fleshing out a character’s backstory is taking a look at what people played a significant part in his or her life — parents and guardians, siblings, relatives, friends, old flames. What impact did they have on his upbringing? If she lost someone early on, did that cause her to look for others to [...]
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When you’re creating a character, it’s often easy to think about the traits that make him cool to hang out with, or to figure out what abilities she prides herself on. But what about the things that make her feel self-conscious or insecure? What does your character dread will get pointed out about him?
These can [...]
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The Wildfire Riders – Bricu by *JRinaldi on deviantART
In order to count all of Yva’s alts, I need to count on both of my hands. Falconesse has at least three alts. Most of the other Riders have at least two alts. While people following GotRP’s twitter stream answers the question, “How many [...]
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From all the rumblings I’ve heard on Feathermoon, it seems that 3.3 dropped at just the right time. End game content, specifically the Tourney, had been played out. Thanks to Fall of the Lich King raiders–including RP-Radiers–have new content to throw themselves into. The patch is a booster shot: It is [...]
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faloon vs a vargul by ~cptndunsel on deviantART
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At the Wrathgate, it was only a matter of time before the Lich King pushed back the initial Charge. Poor Aely was a witness, away from the Riders, to that counter-attack.
For the Riders on the Hill, we have another italics post. This post provided the context for [...]
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((In Anna’s comment thread about how our characters deal with grief and hard times, I mentioned that Annalea’s been a bit…self-destructive recently. A discussion with Tarquin about how Tarq and Annalea are handling their current situations (or not-handling, perhaps) prompted him to write this amazing post. “Just For One Night” is a companion to Tarq’s [...]
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Those of you familiar with White Wolf’s Old World of Darkness character sheets (note: link goes to a .pdf of the Mage sheet) might remember a couple of traits up in the very top section: nature and demeanor.
Nature described your character’s true self: who she was when no one else was looking. Demeanor defined who [...]
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Now that we’re all aware that we won’t really be able to roll Nagasaurs (damn it!) and Blizzcon’s closed its doors for another year, I want to touch — briefly and tangentially — on the idea of the upcoming Cataclysm.
First, a disclaimer: while I’m sure there will be lore aplenty and all kinds of speculation [...]
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And we’re back.
Illithias by *JRinaldi on deviantART
Illithias has been flirting with joining the Wildfire Riders for months–but the difficulties of trans-oceanic guilding have added levels of difficulty to a long process. In her second, we discover more on what Illithias wanted out of confronting the Lich King…
A simple munitions crate, once adorned with [...]
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Arrens: @greyseer @officergleason But that’s most RP anyways. Talking out one’s ass is pretty par for the course.
Way back in the day, before WiFi really, I wrote a paper on how to bullshit through a class. It was, in short, a discussion on how to talk out of one’s ass but still [...]
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